Chương 237: Chapter 236
The spring sun shone on the ground. Rivers that used to be ice and snow shuttled through the forest. They finally converged into a huge river that flowed into the canyon between the forest and the sea.
A small, agile creature was running through the forest. Its whole body was covered in tough scales that blocked out the cold of spring. There was a small organ at the back of its head that provided warmth and comfort to its whole body.
Spar lizard, it had such a name. It moved quickly under the thick fog in the forest, looking for food in the cold and wet air.
In this era, death … was everywhere.
Its four limbs moved quickly. It had an advantage over its other kind because it could generate body heat. It passed through the cracks in the rocks and jumped over a stream of melting snow. A corpse as huge as a mountain appeared in front of it.
The creature's body was fat and covered with a layer of scales. Its scales were full of cracks and wounds. The corpse was lying on the ground, and there was a long trail of blood about a meter behind it. It seemed that it had suffered some kind of injury and dragged its injured body for a long distance before it died.
The Spar lizard was not interested in how the creature died. It raised its head and opened its mouth to make a "gugu" sound. The sound echoed in the forest … After a few seconds, more than ten of its kind came out of the forest and joined the feast.
The shell of the creature's body cracked, but no blood flowed out. Instead, it was covered with a layer of fluffy white substance. This was the sign of a fungal infection. However, the Spar lizards could break down the fungal toxins in their bodies, so they did not mind at all. There was still one Spar lizard that did not eat. Instead, it stood on the back of the corpse and observed its surroundings. In case something dangerous happened.
But it forgot to pay attention to one direction … in the air.
The twisted leaves above suddenly rustled. In less than a second, the rustling sound turned into a huge black shadow … It was a huge rock!
"Ga ga!"
The Spar lizard that was in charge of 'guarding' finally noticed the problem. It immediately jumped down from the corpse and ran away. At the same time, it kept screaming for its companions to run. But the next moment …
"Boom!"
The huge rock hit the corpse heavily. It instantly smashed the corpse and the group of Spar lizards into pieces. Only the one that was on guard survived.
"Ga …" The Spar lizard stared blankly at the place where it was hit by the huge rock. As well as the circle of blood around the boulder, it seemed to find it hard to believe this fact. It suddenly turned around and ran madly into the forest. It ran through the dark and complicated twisted branches, over the rotting wood piles, and into a forest clearing.
This place was covered in white, but this white was not snow. It was bones. Bones of all sizes were piled up in the forest clearing. Some of the bones were still connected to pieces of flesh.. It was a rotten smell.
Only vertebrate creatures would have skeletons, and only terrifying creatures would have skeletons. That was why he could create so many skeletons.
"Crack!"
Accompanied by the sound of bones breaking, a six-meter-tall creature slowly walked out of the pile of bones. The creature stood on two legs, with a tail that was more than half its body length and full of muscles to maintain its balance. A huge mouth full of sawtooth almost tore its face in half. The creature stood in the middle of the pile of bones and roared to the sky, announcing its territory with a shocking roar.
Although it was not roaring at the Spar lizard, the Spar lizard ran away out of fear. It turned around and ran into the forest, rushing into the depths of the forest at an even faster speed.
It did not know how long it ran, but the scenery around the Spar lizard kept changing. Suddenly, a light lit up in front of it. In its vision, it was no longer a dark forest covered by twisted trees, but a vast wilderness.
It had never seen such a scene before.
In the wilderness, there were countless creatures. They were of different shapes. Some were only a few meters long, while others were more than ten meters long. They wandered in the wilderness, chasing each other. Although they were of different species, judging from their soft and thick skin, these creatures were all vertebrates.
At the same time, there were also countless flying creatures in the air. Between their open limbs was a huge wing membrane structure, which gave them the ability to fly and super fast in the air. Suddenly, a flying creature swooped down from the sky, grabbed a small lizard not far in front of the Spar lizard, and flew up into the sky...
. The Spar lizard wanted to run away, but it was horrified to find that its body seemed to be fixed, and it could not move at all.
Just then, a group of huge creatures appeared in front of the Spar lizard. Their heads were long and thin, but their bodies were huge. These creatures took heavy steps and ran in the wilderness in panic.
On the right side of the group, a monster with sharp teeth and fangs rushed out. It pounced on a creature and used its teeth to tear its body apart.
The appearance of this monster caused the creatures to run away frantically. They rushed in the direction of the Spar lizard. Unable to move, the Spar lizard could only watch as one of the creatures raised its leg and stomped on its body.
"Pa!"
With a strange sound, the surrounding scenery suddenly distorted.
"Ga …?" At that moment, the Spar lizard thought that it was dead, but it suddenly found that it was not hurt at all. The creatures and the wilderness were all gone, and in their place was an even more amazing scene.
The ground here was covered with pink, purple, blue, white, and rainbow-like fluff. They intertwined with each other, and in the middle of the fluff, there were huge umbrella-shaped creatures. Under the spring breeze, their "umbrellas" released a large amount of gray powder. The powder drifted with the wind and disappeared into the air.
The Spar lizard was not affected by the beautiful scene in front of it. It immediately tried to move its body, and when it found that there was no problem, it fled into the depths of the forest.
…
Very successful. A new type of brain reader, but it should be called a "hallucinator."
A flying creature in the sky looked at the Spar lizard running away, and Lin was very satisfied.
Recently, fungi had been growing rapidly in the forest. They had replaced the scavenger fungi as the most powerful and fastest decomposer of corpses. Because of the large number of arthropods that died in the Twisted Jungle, and their corpses were usually under the surface of the forest, the fungi suddenly grew there. They first covered the corpses, then extended out of the ground with their hyphae.
One of the fungus was the most unique. Lin called it the "rainbow fungus." It would show different colors according to the food it decomposed, making the ground look like a colorful carpet.
They also grew huge colorful umbrella-shaped structures about one meter in diameter and two meters in height. They were called "giant mushrooms" and released a large number of reproductive cells.
The reproductive cells of fungi were very different from those of other creatures. At first, Lin did not name them separately, but recently, she thought of a new name — "fungus dust." It was very suitable to describe them.
The fungus dust released by fungi would spread everywhere, growing and thriving in any place with water and food. Occasionally, it would drift into the respiratory organs of other creatures, touch their olfactory nerves, and finally cause some strange effects on the brain.
This effect was called "hallucination." It would cause a creature's brain to produce false images or perceptions, mainly due to the abnormal activity of the brain cells caused by the fungus dust.
Originally, these hallucinations only caused creatures to see strange things, such as trees moving, things twisting around them, and so on. The hallucinations would quickly return to normal. Of course, there were also cases where creatures fell off cliffs and died because their sensory organs were paralyzed.
Recently, Lin had researched this phenomenon and created a special unit called the "hallucinator." It was a modification of the brain reader, able to release a weak electric current. It was harmless, but it could cause a similar effect to "fungus dust." Combined with the fungus dust, it could create powerful hallucinations for creatures.
The hallucinator could be carried by a small needle shot out by Lin with the Bomber. After piercing into a creature's skin, the hallucinator would quickly swim to the creature's brain and stay there in a parasitic manner, connecting with the brain's nerves.
Lin happened to see a Spar Lizard run into the area covered by the Rainbow Fungus. It was most likely infected by the fungus dust, so Lin injected a hallucinator into it.
The hallucinations created by the combination of the hallucinator and the fungus dust were extremely realistic. Lin could do it without affecting the creature's ability to sense fear and danger while simultaneously affecting the creature's brain cells. The creatures in the hallucinations would appear as if they were real, causing the Spar Lizard to feel fear and danger. It could even cause it to hallucinate as if it had found 'food'.
This was very interesting, but Lin was still unable to directly read a creature's thoughts for the time being, even though she could force their brain to accept some strange images.
Of course, the brain would also develop a corresponding immunity to this, so if the hallucinations were used on the same creature a few times, they would become ineffective.
However, even if it was done once, it would still be very valuable for research. Lin was currently experimenting with various things, including the brains of creatures. She had to figure out how to read their thoughts, not just their memories, but directly know what they were thinking.
As for the creatures that appeared in the Spar Lizard's hallucinations, they were the creatures that Lin had predicted.
Lin had made some predictions about the reptiles that currently lived in this world, guessing what they would evolve into in the future. However, she didn't make any predictions about plants, so the forest was still the same as the Twisted Forest. At the same time, she had also incorporated the current hallucinations into her predictions. For example, a large rock falling from the sky was also one of the hallucinations that was currently happening.
The rock began to lose its buoyancy and fell from the sky three times in a row …
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